NEW WINDSOR — Video surveillance helped town police track down the suspect in the hit-and-run death of Eric Geter.

Deputy police Chief Richard Hovey said Melissa Ibrahim's 1988 Chrysler LeBaron was on the security footage police checked from businesses in the area following Geter's death Feb. 9.

Geter, 32, who regularly walked to work at American Felt & Filter on Walsh Avenue from his home in the City of Newburgh, was struck by Ibrahim's vehicle between 5:30 and 6 a.m. that day, according to police. State police divers later found his body in Quassaick Creek, which parallels the road.

Hovey said only 10 vehicles of that type and vintage were registered in Orange County.

Police eventually traced it to a local body shop, where Hovey said Ibrahim told the shop staff she had hit a deer.

Ibrahim, 32, was arrested Thursday, as a not-for-profit group was offering a reward in the case and Geter's family and friends were laying him to rest.

Ibrahim was charged with vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle accident, both felonies.

She was arraigned before Town Justice Noreen Calderin and sent to Orange County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. She is scheduled to return to court Thursday.